Suggestion Scheme Facilitator T-Shirts

Dare you to make a suggestion.

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

Inclusive speech

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

Networking

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

"This isn't the big city anymore, Jim. I'm the facilitator now."

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

The suggestion box.

'...'Fire the coach'...'Fire the coach'...'Fire the coach'...'

Comments. Complaints. Constitutional Amendments.

How to engage an audience

Suggestion Box

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

'I'm feeling a sense of conclusion here, so let's draw things to a close.'

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

Start the session by doing something unusual.

Time Clock.

'I understand you're not very happy here, Wiley.'

'Get a new hair-do, join a health club, call your mother...'

Suggestions Box

"We can't even agree what to argue about any more!"

"Find out who put a 100 dollar bill in the suggestion box. This person has potential!"

Suggestion box.

The facilitator from hell.

'Ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to get down to nuts and bolts.'

'I just want it on record that I'm delivering this for somebody else.'

'Benson will you stop trying to dominate the meeting.'

'We're running late and I have much to cover. Can you hold your eight-part question for later?'

Today's seminar is going to be so much fun...

The First Powerpoint

"I write these in my manager's handwriting, so no one will hate me."